Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of an exterior side view of a French box car used in World War I, ca.1919. The rectangular wooden car is at center and is made of thin horizontal wooden boards. A large square door is in the center of the car. On either side of the railroad car are other cars, and there is an intersection of tracks in the foreground. The box car could be used to transport forty men or eight horses to the front.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w 12 x 18 cm. photographic prints photographs
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